actually I found a method to read Malayalam on emacs shell. so I forgot about this. sorry!!
today I filed a bug in gnome bugzilla (id=606370). pls check -- Gnome terminal not supporting utf-8 Malayalam Language https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs